Thanks, Terry. That reminded me to review Wolfgang Breitling's "What is New in the oracle 9i CBO". I'm setting one-by-one the parameters that changed defaults between 8i and 9.2 at the session level. I haven't hit the correct one yet, but you've given me hope! Barb On 11/4/05, Terry Sutton <terrysutton@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Barbara, > I can't tell you the specific action to take to fix the process, but it's > root cause is probably because of the different default values in 9i vs. 8i > for many underscore parameters related to the optimizer. These particularly > affect subqueries. Take a look in Metalink for terms like "unnest". > --Terry > > I'm testing an upgrade of a database from version 8.1.7.4 <http://8.1.7.4>to > version > 9.2.0.4 <http://9.2.0.4> > Test db LEGS Oracle version 9.2.0.4 <http://9.2.0.4> just created > Prod db ARMS Oracle version 8.1.7.4 <http://8.1.7.4> > Prod db AMPROD Oracle version 9.2.0.4 <http://9.2.0.4> > >